Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

“Trouble cruised into Tupelo Landing at exactly seven minutes past noon on Wednesday, the third of June flashing a gold badge and driving a Chevy Impala the color of dirt.”  So begins the novel Three Times Lucky.

Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, find themselves in the middle of a mystery unlike anything they’ve ever experienced in their small town Tupelo.  Joe Starr, detective from Winston=Salem, enters their town in an attempt to solve a mystery.  When local loner, a cantankerous old man named Jesse Tatum, is murdered, the plot thickens.  Everyone in this small town becomes under suspicion by Joe Starr.

Mo and Dale form the Desperado Detectives.  Will Mo ever find her “Upstream Mother”--the one who tied her to a flowing raft when she was an infant in the hopes of saving her life during a hurricane?  Will Mo’s step-parents--the colonel and Miss Lana escape suspicions?  Read Three Times Lucky to find out!